Ory Okolloh Quotes
The city of Johannesburg built an app because they are getting so many complaints on Facebook and Twitter about potholes. The app allows you to report a pot hole and take a picture of it. Then, you can actually track the progress in terms of the repair, when it happened.
Quotes to Explore
-
Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
-
As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
-
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
-
I'm not a control freak.
-
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
-
When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
-
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
-
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
-
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
-
No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
-
I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
-
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
-
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
-
You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
-
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
-
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
-
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
-
I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They're all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it.
-
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
-
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
-
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
-
The city of Johannesburg built an app because they are getting so many complaints on Facebook and Twitter about potholes. The app allows you to report a pot hole and take a picture of it. Then, you can actually track the progress in terms of the repair, when it happened.
